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jakeXT

(10,575 posts) Tue May 6, 2014, 03:53 PM May 2014

Missing girl found by Game Of Thrones fan who searched field being circled by crows

Missing girl found by Game Of Thrones fan who searched field being circled by crows because the birds are a sign of important events in the show

A three-year-old girl who went missing while out playing in Russia has been rescued by a curious Game of Thrones fan.

The TV series makes uses crows and ravens as a signal that an important event is about to take place.

So when fan Cairo Nurmagambetov saw birds circling over a field in the southern city of Omsk, he knew he had to investigate

The flock of birds led him to Alexandra Spirkina, who went missing two days earlier.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621445/Missing-three-year-old-girl-Game-Of-Thrones-fan-searched-field-seeing-crows-circling-birds-sign-important-events-show.html

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Missing girl found by Game Of Thrones fan who searched field being circled by crows (Original Post) jakeXT May 2014 OP

that's a wonderful story! lunatica May 2014 #1

The trope is that they're "keeping an eye out for lunch" intaglio May 2014 #2

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

1. that's a wonderful story!

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2014, 03:55 PM

May 2014

Maybe there's something to those crows and ravens are telling us something. They sure say it loud enough!

intaglio

(8,170 posts)

2. The trope is that they're "keeping an eye out for lunch"

Reply to lunatica (Reply #1)

Tue May 6, 2014, 04:15 PM

May 2014

Waiting for someone vulnerable to die.

I suspect the reality is far more than that; corvids are very intelligent and probably have some empathy with other species.

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